Dolores Park, March 16, 2020, 2:43 p.m. Photo by Emma Silvers

Hello Readers:

Joe takes a look at our pandemic year – and the residents who are leaving the city hat you have not read about.

In other news:

  • Instagram and vaccines? UCSF’s Dr. Kim Rhoads and others with Umoja in Oakland are using it to convince others to get vaccinated.
  • Vaccines have increased at Capp Street – and hours too.
  • The tracker.

We are getting through this.

— Lydia

Stories

Umoja Health in Oakland launched community Covid-19 vaccination site

“Umoja is branded now. It’s a network of community members. It’s street-certified,” A.J. Burleson said.

Capp street vaccination site expands hours and increases vaccines

The vaccine site at Capp and 24th street has increased its daily vaccine capacity to 300 and could expand more if given more vaccines.

Covid Tracker: 34,359 cases, 436 deaths

New cases, positivity rates and hospitalizations continue their slow drift downward.

Our pandemic year: As San Francisco recovers, hope for the best — expect the worst

There is a narrative that the pandemic will drive the obnoxious, wealthy arrivistes out of this city — a better tomorrow that looks, oddly, like yesterday. But tech workers are moving by choice, others are still being pushed out.

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

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